Every year during spring semester, an adventurous group of UW-Platteville students accompany Professor Louis Nzegwu to China for a 15-day tour, organized by the International Business Resource Center. While there, the students will tour Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. The deadline to sign up for the trip is Friday, Oct. 18.
The students will visit […]

UW-Platteville’s Student Senate passed their budget in a 10-4-5 vote Oct. 1. Senate also made an alteration to their constitution and discussed the campus diversity plan.
With the creation of the rental issues coordinator position that has been appointed to senator Mike Park, from the college of engineering, mathematics and science, the Senate had to decide […]

The UW-Platteville football team’s opener at UW-Stout did not go as they had hoped.
The Pioneers lost to the Blue Devils 28-7 on Sept. 29 in a game marred by turnovers and equally unfortunate weather.
The game was twice delayed due to lightning in the third quarter and UW-P turned the ball over five times.
Senior quarterback Michael […]

While on-campus students at UW-Platteville may not even realize that they have peers living halfway around the world, UW-Platteville’s Distance Education online classes offer classes for non-traditional students wishing to earn a degree.
UW-Platteville offers two undergrad programs: Bachelor of Science in business administration and Bachelor of Science in criminal justice. Three graduate degrees are also […]

You know me. In one way or another you’ve seen me. I was the Homecoming coordinator for 2002. I was in dozens of Pioneer Players Productions and I’m the guy with the pink hair. I’m also gay. Some of you might be thinking, “Well, duh.” Still others, and I hope it’s a small minority, might […]

One of last year’s new events is returning for UW-Platteville’s 2007 Homecoming.
“The academic event is … pretty popular,” Hanah Diebold, junior chemistry and criminalistics major, said. “It has the trivia aspect for those that don’t like to compete in the physical events. We didn’t expect it to be that popular.”
UW-P students, faculty and alumni all […]

The First Amendment was being practiced at length at UW-Platteville Sept. 25. Bill Landerholm and George Smock preached their religious beliefs to students between the Pioneer Student Center and Boebel Hall.
“We’re here to preach and teach the Bible,” Smock, founder and president of Campus Ministry USA, said. “They [college students] need to know there is […]

On the small screen classics of our childhood like Saved by the Bell, Boy Meets World and even the tumultuous love affair between Winnie and Kevin on The Wonder Years; romance, friendship, rivalry and every other human interaction was carried out as students interacted between classes and after school.
Nowadays between classes, if I’m not listening […]

Unsportsmanlike conduct at UW-Platteville athletic events is causing a change in the athletic department’s policies and procedures toward negative behavior.
Before the athletic department began charging admission to soccer games, the entrance gates to the stadium were left wide open at the beginning of all games. Not having the entrances staffed meant the freedom for any […]

The UW-Platteville mens soccer team split a pair of games last week, dominating the Coe College Kohawks and then falling to the Duhawks of Loras College.
The Pioneers played impressively at home on Sept. 25 for Youth Soccer Night, netting a 6-1 victory against the Kohawks from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
“Coe is a rival, and every time […]